Ein Buch über Dich

by Charles F. Haanel

Ever Wonder Why Things Happen in Your Life?
Then This is the Book for You ... About You.

?If only life came with an operator?s manual...? How many times have you wished that? How many times have you asked, Why do things go wrong for me? Why do certain things tend to happen to me? How can I change my life for the better? What the heck is going on here?

Thankfully, there is an operator?s manual for life?and you're holding it in your hands!

Paperback

First published March 1, 2006

About the author

Charles Francis Haanel was a noted American New Thought author and a businessman. He is best known for his contributions to the New Thought Movement through his book The Master Key System.

Hannel's book The Master Key System, was published in 1912, when he was 46 years old. It is written in the form of a course in New Thought, mental development, financial success, and personal health. The book was heavily promoted in the pages of Elizabeth Towne's New Thought magazine The Nautilus. By 1933 it had sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. Haanel practiced the financial principles he preached and was a self made success who owned several major companies. According to Stevens, writing in 1909, "He was president of the Continental Commercial Company, president of the Sacramento Valley Improvement Company, and president of the Mexico Gold & Silver Mining Company."

The original Master Key System contained 24 parts or modules of study. The allegedly "lost" chapters of the Master Key System, chapters 25-28, which are found in some editions, are not original, but have been copied from the chapters 11-14 of A book about You. Among the key points of Haanel's system are what he refers to as the laws of concentration, attraction, and harmonious thinking and action. Unique to the Master Key System is a set of exercises that accompany each chapter, and which are systematically building upon each other — they are what makes the Master Key System a system.

In addition to the Master Key System, Haanel wrote several other books including Mental Chemistry, published in 1922, The New Psychology, published in 1924, A Book about You, published in 1927, and The Amazing Secrets of the Yogi, co-authored with Victor Simon Perera and published in 1937.

In 1919, Napoleon Hill wrote Haanel a letter thanking him for The Master Key System.[8] In the letter Hill stated, "My present success and the success which has followed my work as President of the Napoleon Hill Institute is due largely to the principles laid down in The Master-Key System."

Haanel was quoted in the best-selling self-help book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, published in 2007.

Reviews

[Michael MaeRhys]

Another book of 'once mainstream esoterica' by Charles F. Haanel. 'A Book About You' is a book about the physical, mental and spiritual manifestations of self and how the are all interconnected and related. This book parrots a great deal that was covered in the book "A New Psychology", but goes into greater depth in relations to the idea of all things as vibrations; particularly with regard to the astrological effects of planetary movements on the vibrations of earthy life and thought. The ideas and concepts presented in regards to Astrology are presented in pseudo-scientific fashion, as the author attempts (and in my opinion does a relatively decent job of) connecting the science of planetary movements with the mythology of the effects of those movements on human behavior. It's a good supplementary book to "A New Psychology" but (again) is redundant in many spots.

[Gayatri]

This has deep knowledge of how the planets affect us. Must read for those on the journey to self discovery. Read only 1 to 2 pages daily, otherwise you might get bored.